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The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA
ISBN 0399531653

I’ve barely started reading this book, so I can’t review it completely right now. That being said, it was a book that our Occupational Therapist recommended and I received a pleasant surprise when I found that my request at the local library had arrived. The book gives lots of good solid information about Sensory Processing Disorder.  It starts off describing four different children and how they behave in different situations.  There were several descriptions that reminded me very much of my B.  I can tell that this book will be very helpful to my husband and I (although, let’s face it, I’ll be the one reading it and sharing it with him).  I’m looking forward to learning more about Sensory Processing Disorder and Sensory Integration theory and strategies we can use to help B.  I’ll update on this book soon!

(Note, B has not been diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder at this time).

Let me know if you’ve read this book and any thoughts you have on it, please!  Thanks!

Well, here it is, my first celebration post!  Way back in May, I shared about B’s echolalia. In particular, when B wanted to be carried, she was holding her arms up and saying, “Carry you, Mama!” as an echo of me asking “Would you like me to carry you?” Well, yesterday on the way home from the park, B did her usual bit of getting in front of me so that I couldn’t walk. She held her arms up and asked, “Mama, you like you carry me?” Now I know that it’s not 100% correct, but it put a smile on my face to hear her use the words “carry me”.

It took months to get us to this point. The technique we used was one I learned in the More than Words workshop called Interpreting–saying the words as your child would if they could. Whenever B asked me to “carry you”, I would say back to her, “Carry me, Mama” so that she had the correct model to follow. It’s not always easy, because my first reaction is to respond to what I know she is saying. It’s great to see the lessons we’ve learned put in to practice and paying off.